They don’t even need to sink a carrier, all they need to do is land a missile and the deck will be damaged and the carrier will be inoperable. They can’t risk having multi-million $ jets taking off on a damaged deck. Carriers are just behemoths to intimidate weak opponents, but faced with an opponent that can hit back, they are big expensive targets for a barrage of hypersonic anti-ship missiles.
If Iran sinks a carrier with the loss of a huge number of crew and billions of military hardware, it will be a total embarrassment for Amerikkka. A dying empire might resort to a horrific response.
The dying empire is already doing countless horrific things and will continue to, regardless of how much Iran fights back. So they may as well fight back
Because the US could do that with a single stealth bomber in one bombing run that can’t be defended against. To do the same with conventional bombs would take far longer and Iran’s air defenses and retaliation would make it too costly to maintain.
They don’t even need to sink a carrier, all they need to do is land a missile and the deck will be damaged and the carrier will be inoperable. They can’t risk having multi-million $ jets taking off on a damaged deck. Carriers are just behemoths to intimidate weak opponents, but faced with an opponent that can hit back, they are big expensive targets for a barrage of hypersonic anti-ship missiles.
If Iran sinks a carrier with the loss of a huge number of crew and billions of military hardware, it will be a total embarrassment for Amerikkka. A dying empire might resort to a horrific response.
The dying empire is already doing countless horrific things and will continue to, regardless of how much Iran fights back. So they may as well fight back
I’m talking about dropping a nuke, they’ve done it before.
This is my worst case but still plausible scenario fear. The US responds to a major vessel loss with a nuke on Tehran.
Why are nukes so much scarier than regular bombs and missiles btw? Gaza is flattened and no nukes were involved with that.
Because the US could do that with a single stealth bomber in one bombing run that can’t be defended against. To do the same with conventional bombs would take far longer and Iran’s air defenses and retaliation would make it too costly to maintain.